PEOPLE EX REL. LA ROCCA v. CONBOY


40 A.D.2d 907 (1972)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Thomas La Rocca, Appellant, v. Joseph P. Conboy, as Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

November 21, 1972


Appellant has been convicted of two separate murders and sentenced to life imprisonment for each conviction, the sentences to run consecutively. Review of the first conviction has been completed but appeal of the second conviction is pending before the Appellate Division, Second Department. Appellant urges that the two consecutive life terms are unconstitutional because tantamount to capital punishment or at least cruel and inhuman...

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